Oakwood High School - Acorn Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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Preparing For The Take-Off During our years in Oakwood Junior and Senior High Schools the faculty has shared our eagerness to find the field in which we may have some ability or particular interest. Since the seventh grade our homeroom advisers, with the aid of various text' books, have impressed upon us the need for careful planning of our highfschool work for the best educational and vocational guidance. In order that we might Hnd out more about vocations in which we were interested, vocational conferences were arf ranged for seniors and other seniorfhigh students who wished to attend. Speakers rep' resenting various industries and professions had conferences with groups of students explaining to them the requirements for a particular field of work and the chances for advancement in that field. During the last semester of our senior year each senior has had a conference with the dean for the purpose of considering the next step after high school. If that step is college, the choice of college was discussed, the arrangements were made for en' trance, and high school records were checked to make sure the student had sufficient credits to meet college requirements. These conferences, as well as occasional consulf tations with college representatives, aided us immeasurably in making our choices. Those students planning to enter schools requiring College Board examinations have spent a great deal of time in special review and preparation. The faculty members have given freely of their time and assistance outside of regular school hours to the College Board students and others preparing for special scholarships or honors. This year, as in former years, scholarship tests have been taken by seniors in the upper forty per cent of their class. Scholarships in Ohio colleges are offered to those having a high ranking in the state, and a high state ranking also excuses College Board applicants from taking further examinations. The faculty has given us good counsel to assist us in reaching that goal toward which we have aimed. We shall endeavor to the utmost of our ability to be worthy of their confidence in us and to profit from their guidance. EMu1iel Musser . f' ,l a.., hh.

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IDOROTHY WIELCII Hockey 1. 2, 3, 4: Basket' hall l, 2. 3, 4: Girls' League Z. 3. 4: junior Play Club For must 33 Girl Reserves 2: Programs 2, we that live to please please to live. CALVIN LFROY WINSLOW Ba seball 1, 2, 3, 4: Intraf Art Awards WINIFRIiD J. TRIMBACII 4: Girls' murals 2. 3, 4: Chorus 3. League 2' 3, 4: Girl Re, UI exmt as I am, that is serves 3, 4: Girls' League enoughp- I ' Christmas Party 4. I love my fellowfcreatuvesf' l 1 'I' CAROLYN TRUSLER Art Awards 2, 4: Dayton .xy Acorn 4, Cl MARILYN SARAH VANCE ass Editor: Art Institute Scholarship Lumberjack 33 Quill El? 4: Glee Club 1. 2, 3: Chorf Scroll 3, 4: Class Invitation us 3: Girlsl League 2, 3, 4: Committee 4: Intramurals Girl Reserves 2. 3. My heart is like a singing 4: Chorus 4. l'Let us do or bird. CLASS SONG OF '39 die. Words and music by MARGIE HARRKJLL I. The time has come to say goodbye: Our voices high we raise, For we are leaving Oakwood High Where we spent our happiest days. II. Our ship of knowledge we have sailed 'Til now our port we've neared, We've weathered storms, we've worked Now all of our trouhles we've cleared. CHORUS Oh, Oakwood High, you've guided us Through four short years of life, You've filled our days with happiness, You've helped us to overcome strife. But now, we'Il have to stand alone, We're in the hattle to fight. May we he as true, as vve've heen to y For you've helped to guide us aright. as one, ou,

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History of the Class of 1939 In the fall of 1926 some scientists were experif 'Xf menting with a huge bomber at Wright Field. On vW-- 1 the initial test flight from the field it carried a highly ki, if f-w explosive bomb containing twentyfseven destructive 5-J , ,' E bomblets. This may sound a bit balmy, but that's to be ex- ' T K lm sr pected from the class of '39. The eighteen of these that landed gfw l Q? at Harman Avenue School were Greer Marechal, Helen Oliver, Ni!Woody Standish, Louise Clement, Bill Barr, who even then was W' A preaching to his disciples, Virginia Boyles, Bob Gray, Anne Sullivan, qt :Q 5-3 Walter McClaren, glamour girl Sue Myers, Dave Prugh, Ruth Langley, Ward McCally, Jane Hunter, Phyl Stanley, Lois Geis, Marie Merrill, Mary liilllia! Elizabeth Keogh, and Bill Walter forming the kindergarten class at Harman. 3 The other nine found themselves in the little green shacks which later united if into the Shafor Boulevard School. 'P The Shafor kindergarten was composed of Marilyn Vance, calm, cool and col' lected Jane Strong, Jack Lee, janet Breidenbach, Edgar Herrman, Esther Murlin, even then a combination of brain and ability, Marjorie Kronour, and Buena Greer. joining this group the following year were Leo the Lion Feinerer, Alice Hirsch, and Ronald Stahl. Barbara Legler and Mary Dunwoodie came to Harman's first grade just in time to see Bob Gray black Clemy's eye. fWas this a case of boy chase girl or girl chase boy?j Mary Elizabeth Keogh and Ruth Langley departed seeking their education elsewhere. Lady killers Stanley Jones and Dale Molfet escorted Dorothy Welch into the second grade at Harman. Shafor's newcomers were Frances Linder, Muriel Musser, Harry Clinger, Doro' thy Tate, Ruth Dolle, Bill Liming, Maria Economides, Bean Shannon, Clarence Shultheis, Jack Pearly Gates, Bill Husmann, and Doris Hostetter. Tom Walkup blasted his way into Shafor's third grade along with Betty Rout' zahn, Harold Jacobson, Marjorie Kromphardt, Mary jane Stein, and Marie Merrill. Doris Hostetter and Marilyn Vance left Shafor to enter Harman with Carolyn Talbot and Jimmy Priest in the third grade. At Bible School this year, the boys de' lighted in putting worms down the girls' necks. Trying to impress the girls, males with mechanical minds constructed a viking ship. That future West Pointer Boyd McKinney and policeman's son Hugh Farler, seeing the need for reform in the fourth grade at Shafor, came in time to see that Bean kept his chewing gum behind his ear for two hours and five minutes. Bill Pickrel entered Harman at the beginning of the fourth grade. After the play about Stone Age People Happy Fluhart, Sug Kiefaber and Bob Cook honored the class with their presence. Jack O'Hearn, Carolyn Trusler, and Mary Patricia Ann Poeppelmeier, otherwise known as Patty, joined the ranks at Shafor. Shirley Kirkpatrick and Don Fox came to struggle with the other fifth graders in the first attempt at French at Harman. Jane Strong migrated to Harman to battle against her comrades in kickball at the Oakwood athletic field. Greer began his dramatic career as the father in Byrd's Christmas Carol. Our first money making project was The Little Princess. Dr. Peter Jund, known to most teachers as Lois, Jane Hunter, Betsy Byrd, and Dorothy Leyes came to graduate with Shafor's sixth grade class. Page twentyfeigltt